Velga Ozolina

Riga Technical University | RTU · Governance and Security Institute

Developed transport and storage sector has up-most importance for production capacities in regions, especially in rural areas, ensuring supplies and deliveries, including well-developed and maintained infrastructure, transport vehicles, IT systems and human capital. Till 2040 demand for highly-educated and qualified logistics specialists will incre...

Sustainable and balanced recovery is a key factor to ensure the economic performance. Two-speed recovery pattern is already observed. Three-speed recovery represents the most likely pattern of recovery in majority in the EU countries in the post-COVID era due to the common dramatic decline in transport and tourism, relative minor impact on large pa...

COVID-19 policy and measures have caused both negative and positive challenges for the transport sector. The aim of the research is to model an impact of shocks that transport and logistics encounter during the COVID-19 era on the economy and regional development. A comparative-static approach that involves an input-output model with additional reg...

Effective government transport policy can be based only on realistic data, sophisticated and detailed transport sector analysis, and productive modelling. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the main elements used to develop a relatively small macro-economic input-output model with the emphasis on transport for one European Union (EU) country. T...

Transport and logistics heavily depend on economic activity and consumption decisions made by the market nationally and globally. Advanced economies face new global trends caused by more eco-friendly consumption behaviour decisions, distance shopping etc. The aim of the research is to model the economic impact of consumption decisions on transport...

Transportation and storage industry plays an important role in Latvian economy. Not only it generates significant share of the value added (9.2% in 2017), but it also ensures exports of transport services (12.7% of the total exports of goods and services in 2017). The aim of the paper is to evaluate the possibilities to model the impact of the tran...

The paper deals with the analysis of exports and competitiveness in Latvia in comparison with Estonia and Lithuania. The objective of the study is to elaborate the possible sectoral development scenarios based on the competitiveness analysis results. The main focus is on exports of goods and revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of exported products...

The paper covers analysis of high-tech industry development in Latvia, as well as its facilitating and restricting factors. High-tech industries become more important in Latvia both in terms of export share and generated value added; also the number of enterprises and employees is increasing. A stable political system, enabling business environment...

The article is devoted to the issues of modelling and forecasting corporate income tax revenues in Latvia. Analysis of legal aspects and data shows that it is necessary to distinguish between advance payments (usually monthly payments) and final tax payments made in March, April or May. Following the usual practice, both identities and econometric...

In the era of increasing globalization, international cooperation and international trade, it is becoming more important to focus the attention to particular markets and countries to facilitate exports. It ensures more targeted approach and thus more efficient use of the scarce resources. The choice of the export target countries is done in several...

Competitiveness is the key factor in order to reach the economic transformation, smart growth, governance and legal framework for the state and society for sustainable development that are stated as the major goals in the current planning period in Latvia. High-technology industries are the main drivers of economic activity in developed economies....

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the exports and competitiveness in the Baltic States from the trade in value added perspective. The main objective is to determine the differences in export patterns measured in gross terms and in value added terms and the implications on competitiveness. Focusing on the recent trend to facilitate high value...

The paper examines export, productivity and impact on the economy. The aim of the research is to analyse and estimate the exiting relations between exports of goods and services and labour productivity using the principles of inputoutput analysis and econometric methods. Special attention is devoted to Latvia’s economy; however, in order to perform...

Analysis of macroeconomic environment is important to any enterprise. Moreover, analysis of regional or even global trends is essential to exporters. Therefore the article contains the analysis of the main macroeconomic indicators of the EU countries and Russia, as these are Latvia's main export markets. In order to evaluate development opportuniti...